Daniel 3:19-27

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¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with ^(A)wrath, and the image of his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. He answered and said to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated. ²⁰ And he said to certain mighty men of valor who were in his military ^[a]host to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in order to cast them into the furnace of blazing fire. ²¹ Then these men were tied up in their ^[b](B)trousers, their ^[c]coats, their caps, and their other clothes and were cast into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. ²² For this reason, because the king’s word was ^[d](C)urgent and the furnace had been heated to an extraordinary degree, the flame of the fire killed those men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. ²³ But these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ^(D)fell into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire still tied up.

²⁴ Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astounded and hurriedly stood up; he answered and said to his high officials, “Was it not three men we cast tied up into the midst of the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “Certainly, O king.” ²⁵ He answered and said, “Look! I see four men loosed and ^(E)walking about in the midst of the fire ^[e]without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the ^(F)gods!” ²⁶ Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the furnace of blazing fire; he answered and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, come out, you servants of the ^(G)Most High God, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego ^(H)came out of the midst of the fire. ²⁷ Then the ^(I)satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the ^(J)fire had no power over ^[f]the bodies of these men, nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their ^[g](K)trousers ^[h]damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.